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Power in resilience and resilience's power in climate change scholarship

Garcia, Alicea; Gonda, Noemi; Atkins, Ed; Godden, Naomi Joy; Henrique, Karen Paiva; Parsons, Meg; Tschakert, Petra; Ziervogel, Gina

Sammanfattning

Resilience thinking has undergone profound theoretical developments in recent decades, moving to characterize resilience as a socio-natural process that requires constant negotiation between a range of actors and institutions. Fundamental to this understanding has been a growing acknowledgment of the role of power in shaping resilience capacities and politics across cultural and geographic contexts.This review article draws on a critical content analysis, applied to a systematic review of recent resilience literature to examine how scholarship has embraced nuanced conceptualizations of how power operates in resilience efforts, to move away from framings that risk reinforcing patterns of marginalization. Advancing a framework inspired by feminist theory and feminist political ecology, we analyze how recent work has presented, documented, and conceptualized how resilience intersects with patterns of inequity. In doing so, we illuminate the importance of knowledge, scale, and subject-making in understanding the complex ways in which power and resilience become interlinked. We illustrate how overlooking such complexity may have serious consequences for how socio-natural challenges and solutions are framed in resilience scholarship and, in turn, how resilience is planned and enacted in practice. Finally, we highlight how recent scholarship is advancing the understandings necessary to make sense of the shifting, contested, and power-laden nature of resilience. Paying attention to, and building on, such complexity will allow scholarly work to illuminate the ways in which resilience is negotiated within inequitable processes and to address the marginalization of those continuing to bear the brunt of the climate crisis.

Nyckelord

knowledge; power; resilience; scale; subject making

Publicerad i

Wires Climate Change
2022, Volym: 13, nummer: 3, artikelnummer: e762

    Globala målen

    SDG5 Uppnå jämställdhet och alla kvinnors och flickors egenmakt
    SDG10 Minska ojämlikheten inom och mellan länder
    SDG16 Främja fredliga och inkluderande samhällen för hållbar utveckling, tillhandahålla tillgång till rättvisa för alla samt bygga upp effektiva, och inkluderande institutioner med ansvarsutkrävande på alla nivåer

    UKÄ forskningsämne

    Pedagogik
    Genusstudier

    Publikationens identifierare

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.762

    Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/115817